Nicky Winmar

Nicky Winmar (born 25 September 1965) is a former Australian rules footballer best known for his career with St Kilda and the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League. A Noongar man from the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, he began with South Fremantle in the West Australian Football League, played 58 games there and was recruited by St Kilda before the 1987 season. In twelve seasons at St Kilda he won the club best and fairest award, the Trevor Barker Award, in 1989 and 1995 and was twice named in the All-Australian team. He was the first Aboriginal footballer to play 200 games in the AFL and was named in the Indigenous Team of the Century in 2005. After a 1993 match he lifted his guernsey and pointed to his skin in response to racist heckling, an image regarded as a catalyst for the AFL's efforts to address racism. He left St Kilda after 1998 and played one final season with the Western Bulldogs.